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Access oddity - right newsgroup?
"David B." wrote in message
... Some application you have running is set to automatically dial a connection, it will do this even if you have an active broadband connection, do as Lem said and set to never dial, then unplug the phone cord from the wall. I did that last night, and while I was at it I discovered what application was dialing out - IE. I had turned it off long ago, but something or someone turned it back on in the last day or so. In fact I recall that it did that a lot when I first turned it off. It kept getting turned back on. I blamed Willy G. I don't get the obsession that everybody must BE ONLINE! Even when I select to find a program with which to read some esoteric file, the popup _defaults_ to GO ON THE INTERNET TO FIND IT, or words to that effect. I can't unplug the telephone line yet. I still have some essentials tied to it. But the Never-Ever setting has killed the dial-outs. Thanks -- JimL |
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Access oddity - right newsgroup?
"David B." wrote in message
... Some application you have running is set to automatically dial a connection, it will do this even if you have an active broadband connection, do as Lem said and set to never dial, then unplug the phone cord from the wall. I did that last night, and while I was at it I discovered what application was dialing out - IE. I had turned it off long ago, but something or someone turned it back on in the last day or so. In fact I recall that it did that a lot when I first turned it off. It kept getting turned back on. I blamed Willy G. I don't get the obsession that everybody must BE ONLINE! Even when I select to find a program with which to read some esoteric file, the popup _defaults_ to GO ON THE INTERNET TO FIND IT, or words to that effect. I can't unplug the telephone line yet. I still have some essentials tied to it. But the Never-Ever setting has killed the dial-outs. Thanks -- JimL |
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